Sunday, August 29, 2010

Why do I post so rare here?

Why have not I blogged for a while? Do I have nothing to say? Have not red anything? Of course, no. This is not the case!
Then why to have a long time off blogging?

Yes, a lot of other things to do. And even beeing online almost all the time. And even publishing and noting things.

Why not here? -Shortly, because blogger.com takes to much time to communicate a thought. And putting the thought in the right format takes to long.

See my tweets on the left side? Almost every day. Some days tens of tweets.
Evernote. A lot of notes. I even partially keep work related notes there (not published, as you might guess).

Why not blogger.com, there are even features of posting from e-mail or mobile phone (not mention I own an iPhone 3G)?
It requires, a little, but still requires HTML. Is it hard? -No. Do I have Typinator to write the tags for me? -Yes. It still takes to much time and.... yes, my own writing, to post something not fully copy-pasted or linked from somewhere.
It takes too much effort to quote a web page or two!
In Twitter or Evernote its just a click. And a little of typing just to add my comment.

The main reason still is the very old one: I am writing very much slower than I am thinking. I have no idea, what to do to improve this. Would you like audio blog entries more than none at all? - I am not sure about that.

I have been thinking about technical means, like an app (or a nice old program for my Mac) which could turn spoken text into writing. There are some quite good programs in English, but none in my native Latvian. And... those damn things still are not able to put references to web pages and even HTML tags into dictated text!

Is there anything better in referencing even a whole site than Evernote?
Is there a tool which might help to write a short blogger.com entry as fast as a tweet in Tweetie?
Is there any fastest way to publish some pictures than Picasa or Flickr?

That was about blogging as an old and dying way of communication...

But a short time ago there was a success and unsucces list of web sites in TIME tweets. Who still reads TIME? - No one, of course. At least no one is going to admit that. But there was a good idea to think about: they wrote that blogger.com is not popular anymore, that all cool kids move to Tumblr and one more site lv "new media specialist" @arturs advertised. I am to lazy to look for refrences, sorry. Or, to be precise, I could not find them on my Mac for 10 minutes I tried to. So you can take my word on it or just forget it.

Assuming that about blogger.com getting less popular and cool kids moving (or starting) their blogs on other sites. Why do they do so? What do those sites have, that blogger.com has not? Exept inability to log in with a Gmail account?
1) They are better looging.
2) Easier to learn and to set up a blog. To get at least some features on a blog here you need to modify template. Thats a hard, time consuming work, that will better pay off in Wordpress.
3) They are just better looking and easier to post. Maybe even have their own tools or apps.

I wrote such a long story just trying out OmmWriter.
Thought of moving my blog away grom blogger.com got stronger and I will consider it as a serious option, because I dont need a dead blog. I have a lot to post. FAST!!!

P.S. Edited this entry. Why? Wrote it (with all HTML tags) in OmmWriter and the emailed to this blog... and got HTML tags written, encided and displayed wrong. Of course I am pissed to work in this terrible blogger.com editor. Why? It has a lot of features, who do not I like it? Because it is ugly and hard to use!
P.P.S. More deleting. Adding tags. Even more pissed... Desperate not to come back here.
P.P.P.S. I needed to edit once more. Now I am sure about the ansver of the topic. I do not like to post here. Too much time and effort for a little nice thought. And posting took twice more time than writing the story!

AND FUCKING SPANNING (displaying the full story after link in the end) IS STILL NOT WORKING. I am done. And gone. Soon there will be a post where to find my blog I like to write!!!

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